stuff i made

even though I wasn't busy blogging all summer,

I was busy making stuff

this is a bench I made for my mom

I won't lie, it's awesome

plans from the amazing ana white

for the rustic pottery bench

so my only not happiness about this is our lame lumber store

they're helpful, just not big enough to have what I want

if I don't want to drive to park city for home depot...

(because I was making this the day of her birthday)

...I buy the wood there

it's way more than ana estimates wood should cost

plus they have never heard of a 1 by 3

so I have to figure out how to do it with 1 by 4 boards

that are far from straight

in this instance things worked out

I also altered the top because I knew this bench

would be for plants

so the slats would be better than a solid top

for dripping water

then black stain

then poly spray

then hooray

friends, I know I live in Wyoming and all

but I am not a lumberjack

I'm still kind of scared of the saw

and I don't know any of the right names for tools

Derek, hand me Filipe the turner

the point: you can totally do this